My Foray into My Midwestern Roots

Roadmap to New Cousins!

Tuesday when I posted my submission for the 59th Carnival of Genealogy, I didn’t realize that several of my genea-blogger friends would suddenly realize we are related! Julie Cahill Tarr from GenBlog and Becky Wiseman from kinexxions and Whitley County Kinexxions Blog are my newly found distant cousins! We are related through our ancestor, Richard Treat, one of the first settlers of Wethersfield, Connecticut. So for full disclosure, I thought I would list how I am related to Richard Treat.

Richard was born around 1584 in Pitsminster, Somerset, England. He was married first to Joanna (maiden name unknown) – who was the mother to several of his children, including their daughter, Joanna (my ancestor). Many refer to his second wife, Alice Gaylord, as the mother of Robert and Joanna. Alice outlived Richard and was named in his will. (Source information: The Hollister Family of America. Compiled by Lafayette Wallace Case M.D.; Chicago, Fergus Printing Company; 1886 and The Treat Family, A Genealogy of Trott, Tratt and Treat. By John Harvey Treat, A.M.; Salem, Massachussets; The Salem Press Publishing & Printing Company; The Salem Press; 1893.)

St. Mary and St. Andrew Church, located in Pitsminster, Somerset, England where Richard Treat was baptized. (Picture from The Pitminster Church.)